Sentences with phrase «of laboring people»

The fact was that while a comparative few were building vast fortunes by every means conceivable, great masses of laboring people were being denied even the fair return of their efforts.

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In the past, recruiting these large numbers of people, not to mention screening and interviewing each potential participant, has been extremely expensive and labor - intensive.

Workers who drink with their colleagues earn up to 14 % more than people who skip the bar, according to research published in the Journal of Labor Research.

Nearly 10 % of the workforce — some 1.4 million people — are immigrants, many of whom are undocumented, according to a 2010 estimate from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Education has traditionally been «done in a labor - intensive, inefficient way,» Raj said on a call, mentioning the paper - based products, in - person meetings, and binders filled with sign - in sheets and lists of checkboxes, that are its hallmarks.

Having a strong, positive culture is also often a differentiator in recruiting and retaining the best people in a competitive labor market, and in nourishing corporate reputations in the age of social media.

If labor were instead allocated in a gender - neutral way, welfare would increase and output per hour would climb by 5.4 percent as people made better use of their time, given their skills.»

Of the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from PolanOf the people identified as victims of modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from Polanof modern slavery in Britain last year, 139 were Polish nationals brought over for labor exploitation with West Midlands Police currently investigating 70 claims of human trafficking from Polanof human trafficking from Poland.

An increase in the number of people quitting their jobs is generally seen as a positive for the health of the labor market, as it suggests those people are confident they can find a new job.

In addition, the average duration of unemployment had got longer in 2013 and labor market participation had waned as people lost hope of finding a job.

«It's good news but a very large but a very large proportion of this improvement came from people who left the labor force - labor force participation has declined significantly and therefore the effort to draw them back into the labor force is a structural issue.»

He points out that people have constructed terrible technology before, notably the 18th century «Satanic Mills» powered by child labor and the grim slaughterhouses that produced tainted meat and made the streets of New York and Chicago run red with blood.

He added that part of the explanation could be that many working - age people are still not participating in the labor market.

Last July, 23.1 million people in that age group were actively looking for a job or working, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Step 4: Assess Your Business's Liability According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than 1.2 million people reported nonfatal occupational injury and illness cases that required days away from work to recuperate.

If business owners are like investors, healthcare providers, labor union leaders and a myriad of other people with vested interest in our policies, they're probably anxiously awaiting the results to see how their businesses — or sentiment — will fare in 2011.

But, according to Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA), Rahimi said 73 percent of these people were men while Associated Press quoted Rahimi as saying that number was 95 %.

So that perfectly brilliant people won't be turned off from pursuing their dream or labor under the assumption that to be an entrepreneur, they must be all or nothing, founder or employee, I sought the perspective of some entrepreneurs, founders and staffers at startups.

In 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics conducted the American Time Use Survey, which found watching television is still Americans» top leisure activity, accounting for the way people age 15 and older spend just over half their available free time — or 2.7 hours — each day.

While Reese says he doesn't know the exact reason, people have labored over the intricacies of language for millennia and usually consider themselves experts in their native tongue.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent, from 7 percent, but that was less about job creation than about people, fed up or unsuccessful in their job searches, dropping out of the labor force.

It originally arrived at using super herbs as a way to support people who have been victims of forced labor.

In fact, Fjord predicts that by 2025, the developed world will face a skilled labor shortage of 56 million people.

Government figures cited by the Associated Press indicate that just 1.7 million people — out of a total non-farm labor force of some 136 million workers — earned the minimum wage or less in 2006; still the increase was a big political victory for the Democrats, one that came at the expense of lobbyists from the National Federation of Independent Businesses and the Chamber of Commerce, among others.

The labor force participation rate, which is the percentage of people 16 and older who are part of the labor force, has been trending down for nearly twenty years:

It's because an even larger number of people, 396,000, joined the labor force than found jobs.

And then comes the following question, through productivity, if you achieve productivity and you are able to cut costs so that you can stay ahead of the game where labor costs are rising ahead of the GDP, then what happens in terms of unemployment or creating job opportunities for those people that now are seeking alternative employment methods because of productivity coming into the game?

Bogle told those assembled that he has been an advocate for «a federal standard of fiduciary duty, the duty of everyone who touches «other people's money» (OPM) to place the interests of [their] clients above [their] own interests» and that he supports the proposed Department of Labor broker fiduciary duty standard.

By comparison, the coal industry employs about 66,000 people, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics's (BLS) recent finalized data from October 2015.

While these persons and entities may labor under the belief that their actions are entrepreneurial rather than criminal, the fact remains that they are in willful possession of stolen property.

That is happening amid an overall aging of the population «shows substantial number of people are being attracted into the labor market,» Yellen said during a press conference following the Fed's September meeting.

This time last year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that 15.5 million people in the United States were self - employed.

«A lot of the excess labor is going to need to go help the people who have lower incomes,» he notes, adding that «Yes, some of it will go to, «Hey, we'll be richer and people will buy more things.»

He argues that this is borne out by other data, like the number of people not in the labor force, but who want a job.

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

Minnesota also has the 15th lowest business - tax rate in the nation, along with a highly - educated labor force of 1.6 million people, making it a worthwhile option for any entrepreneur.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The International Monetary Fund said Wednesday that nearly a quarter of the Middle East's youth are unemployed, warning that unless deeper reforms are made, millions of young people entering the labor market each year may not find jobs.

These bad - news boiler rooms use the world's cheapest labor to reach a terribly skewed (and largely screwed) population of old, rural and homebound people who are also the only ones with the time and any interest in talking to them.

In his State of the Union in July, he said the law will let poor people adequately care for their children, «eventually making [those children] more productive members of the labor force.»

And the ripple effects — on wages, labor participation and the fate of other social benefits — make it difficult for many people to imagine how it would all turn out.

Removing barriers to internal labor mobility and trade are important elements of this strategy — both to bring people with important skills to the areas where the jobs are, and to bring more jobs to people that are not living in the resource - rich areas.

-- Harvard Business School — «The average time it took an unemployed person to find a job — full time, part time or otherwise — in December (2008) was 19.7 weeks» — Department of Labor — «Elite professionals feel least adept at getting meaningful introductions to key contacts (and) more adept at maintaining ongoing contact with key network members.»

TrimTabs» view is that the economy needs to create a minimum of 150,000 jobs per month to absorb all the new people entering the labor force, so its June numbers suggest the U.S. is adding jobs at just half that rate.

At the heart of Virginia's economy are more than 650,000 small businesses, which represent 97.8 percent of all employers and employ nearly half of the private - sector labor force, or nearly 1.5 million people.

The company relies on human labor, and Airbnb Trips, he argues, is technology in the service of bringing people together, to experience new things in real life, not on screens.

Uber, and more broadly the app - driven labor market it represents, is at the center of what could be a sea change in work, and in how people think about their jobs.

«Every rule we take, people threaten us with litigation,» Labor Secretary Thomas Perez told reporters on the sidelines of the event to announce release of the final rule at the Center for American Progress in Washington.

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According to the International Labor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific reLabor Organization, nearly 25 million people work in forced - labor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific relabor conditions worldwide, with 47 percent of them in the Asia - Pacific region.

The labor force participation rate (the number of people employed and unemployment as a percentage of the population) and the employment rate (the ratio of persons 15 and older working to the population 15 and older) are both below their 2001 and 2008 levels.